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Create your own corrupted zombies! Abilities: First ability: Corruption Blast! The Manipulator opens its wings and directs a concentrated blast of Corrupted spores at its opponents. This is a long range attack that will cause enemies to suffer the longer they are exposed to the spores. The damage will stack over time the longer a creature is exposed, which will last until the 20-second mark, where the damage will reach its maximum! Second ability: Plague of the scourge Manipulators can release a toxic sludge made of Corruption from its spiracles. When this sludge comes into contact with an enemy they will become sick and start taking damage. The ailment will spread to others and will begin to mutate the longer it's active, causing the symptoms to get worse over time! Third ability: Tarsal claw The Manipulator can climb up almost any surface with its powerful tarsal claws, allowing them to cling to walls or ceilings! Fourth ability: Reanimator Manipulators can use this ability on both smaller and larger creatures! By placing a Corrupted Node into any creature’s inventory, including Survivors, the node will then sprout tendrils and reanimate the body to do their bidding! However, reanimated creatures cannot be healed due to their zombified status, so use it wisely! Passive ability: Symbiosis The aggro-radius of Corrupted creatures is drastically reduced when riding this creature, which is handy when scouting the Wastelands and the Forbidden Zone! Wild behavior: Manipulators can often be found in the Forbidden Zone of Extinction, or in rare occasions out in the Wasteland spreading its specialized strain of corrupted spores. Manipulators are naturally scavengers but they will not hesitate to hunt down Survivors and other creatures. A Manipulator’s main objective in life is to gain more territory than the others of its kind. When two males come into contact, they will compete over territory and ram into each other using the horns on their pronotums as a show of dominance. Taming: One can acquire a Pronotum by either picking up one from a previous fight between two male Manipulators, or you kill a male to harvest the drop. This can then be used to tame a Manipulator by tossing it to the ground like Honey and it will taunt the Manipulator to fight, to which you will have to bring out your own concussive mount, whether that be a Pachy, Equus or Therizinosaur. You will then battle the Manipulator until it passes out, and then you’ll be able to feed it whatever food it prefers. And there you have it, your very own Manipulator! Tamed: The zombie fungus in the Manipulator can produce corrupted spores that can infect other creatures and Survivors, much like Mega-Rabies but deadlier. With a flap of its wings it can release these spores at opponents to deal damage over time. The damage increases significantly more if the Manipulator previously launched a sludge bomb of spores at their target, and will cause an infection that can be deadly if not treated with the newly acquirable Greater Antidote! The Manipulator can climb any surface with ease, whether vertically or upside down. And more impressively it can avoid detection from Corrupted creatures around it, as long as it’s not directly next to them. But its main ability is the power to “reanimate” the nearly dead using the zombie-ant fungus to control them remotely. The Manipulator must first attach a Corrupted Node directly to a target below 10% health using the fungus sludge as a glue and then release its spores to activate the fungus. This in turn will cause tendrils to sprout out of the body and control the creature or Survivor, to which the one riding the Manipulator can whistle commands as if they are their own tames. The zombies will only last for a short while before dying, so use this ability wisely. Additional information: Manipulators can only hold up to five corrupted nodes at a time. Male Manipulators have horns while the females do not. Manipulator is inspired by multiple creatures including the Madagascar hissing cockroach, Giant cave cockroach, Halloween hissing cockroach, and Tarantula hawk. Manipulator can be found in the wastelands and forbidden zone of Extinction. Credits Concept by Newt Written by Raeph Clark Art by AnnoyedPersistence and Sovi Dossier editing by Lapis Lazuli Modeling by my pet hissing cockroach Rose ❤️